- Enter their minds, and you’ll find the judges you’re so
afraid of—and how judiciously they judge themselves. - Everything in flux. And you too will alter in the whirl and
perish, and the world as well. - Leave other people’s mistakes where they lie.
- When we cease from activity, or follow a thought to its
conclusion, it’s a kind of death. And it doesn’t harm us.
Think about your life: childhood, boyhood, youth, old age.
Every transformation a kind of dying. Was that so terrible?
Think about life with your grandfather, your mother, your
adopted father. Realize how many other deaths and
transformations and endings there have been and ask
yourself: Was that so terrible?
Then neither will the close of your life be—its ending and
transformation.
- Go straight to the seat of intelligence—your own, the
world’s, your neighbor’s.
Your own—to ground it in justice.The world’s—to remind yourself what it is that you’re
part of.